Peter Beaumont on the Algerian special forces who took back the Amenas gas plant, the Guardian Editor-In-Chief Alan Rusbridger on the rescue of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Formica is 100 years old and this weeks audiobooks review listens to the best of Ryamond Chandler

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Syrian rebels sidetracked by the spoils of war, John Patterson on cult German director Werner Herzog and in our audiobooks review we listen to a globetrotting journey in Benjamin Gilmour's Paramédico.